South Africa

Pretoria - Water and Sanitation Minister, Nomvula Mokonyane, will today attend the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Water Ministers Meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Pretoria - Road traffic authorities will embark on a heightened road safety campaign on the N3 national freeway this weekend targeting motorists travelling to the east coast.

Pretoria – South African Revenue Service (SARS) customs officials have foiled an attempt to smuggle ivory worth R4 million.

Pretoria - About 20 youngsters from Eersterust, east of Pretoria yesterday said they would give up drugs and accept help from the Department of Social Development to get their lives back on track.

Pretoria – The majority of child advocacy groups have welcomed the new travel requirements regarding travelling with children, saying the laws were in the best interest of the child and will go a long way in preventing child abduction and human trafficking.

Pretoria – Leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries will later today hold an extraordinary meeting in Pretoria to discuss Lesotho's political situation.

Pretoria – As the country’s power system is currently stable, Eskom is able to perform maintenance without implementing load shedding, the power parastatal said on Friday.

Pretoria – An agreement between the Department of Trade and Industry (dti), the Eastern Cape Provincial Government and Nestle is expected to result in the creation of 800 jobs by 2019, says Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies.

Pretoria - South Africa’s migrating from the analogue broadcasting format to a digital broadcasting system will be top of the agenda during Communications Minister, Faith Muthambi’s, Imbizo in Ratanda, south of Heidelberg on Friday.

Pretoria - Government will announce the date to migrate from analogue to digital broadcasting signals once all systems are in place, including the five million free Set Top Boxes (STBs) to poor households, says Communications Minister Faith Muthambi.

Pretoria - Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies has gazetted the Draft Tourism B-BBEE Codes in terms of Section 9 (5) of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Amendment Act.

Pretoria – Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport, Ismail Vadi, says the department has held a meeting with the representatives of the two provincial taxi associations as well as taxi groups from Mamelodi, regarding the Autopax bus services in Mamelodi.

Pretoria - South Africa continues to value its relationship with the United States, Small Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu said on Thursday.

Johannesburg – Every year, the country loses millions of rands due to water wastage caused by leaking pipes and taps left running unattended to.

Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma, in his capacity as the Chairperson of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, will on Friday host a SADC meeting on Lesotho.